Posts with tag design

Consider, if you will, the slingshot. Awesome, isn't it?

Rhetoric, an American clothing company that makes equally awesome shirts, agrees. They're fans of fantastic design and things that fit nicely in your back pocket. "Rhetoric celebrates diversity and the absurd." Works for us.

You know who needs a good dress? Mariah Carey. Don't get us wrong -- we love her, and girlfriend manages to pull of some outfits that would crush lesser mortals. But at times we fantasize about putting her something that's more wow than whoa!

Whit Honea is a slacker, a borderline degenerate, and a daydream believer. He's also our resident expert on casual chic. If it's comfortable, and not heinous, he's all over it. He's quite charming, really.

Campfire was started by three friends that "shared a sense of humor, a passion for art, and a love of typography. They wanted to wear their hearts on their sleeves." Yes, a love of typography. Beautiful.

Here are some of their creations, heart on the sleeve and picture on the torso:

School spirit is always in style. What's one of the best ways to flaunt yours? Customize yourself some shoes in your school's colors.

The Adicolor kit you see at right was one of the first customizable shoe kits, by Adidas in 1983. Now of course, you can do your customization online.

Choose your favorite shoe designer below and get to work, you fabulous artists, you!

Keds
Nike
Reebok
Converse
Vans

Our pick for this season is Keds, and if you really want to take the Artistic License Bus to Customization Town, check them out on Zazzle.com!

Sure, the Victoria Secret fashion show has all of those supermodels, but it's sort of sanitized sexiness. Plus you know that everything in the show will eventually turn up a mall near you, piled on a table next to a pyramid of "Pink-scented" lotion.

If you want creativity and adventure in your underwear, you have to check out the new Triumph Inspiration Awards. An international design competition for students, this year the theme was Female Fascination. Designers from 31 countries participated and the judges included supermodel Helena Christensen, Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf, and noted sexy photographer Ellen von Unwerth.

Is pop star Leona Lewis, aka PETA's most sexy vegetarian, about to get her own Topshop line? British rag The Sun reports that Leona and Fashion Svengali Sir Phillip Green have a dinner scheduled, as soon as he gets back from his trip to Ibiza with Kate Moss.

Since she's young and beautiful, and he's old and rich, this can mean only one thing. They're collaborating on a new clothing line. (What did you think we meant?)

The notorious Kate is Sir Phillip's current celebrity designer cash cow, but she can't stay young forever. Leona's staggering success in the U.K. and the U.S., plus her broad appeal make her a very marketable choice.

Let's see: popular and pretty celebrity, trendy clothes, inexpensive price points...we're going out on a limb and predict this will make buckets of money for Sir Phillip, and one hopes for Leona. Oh, yes, and as The Sun points out, Simon Cowell, too.

We love all of the amazing independent designers out there. In order to find out more about just what makes all of these creative types tick, we present to you an ongoing segment called Indie Designer Interviews.

At the age of only 24, jewelry designer Ashley Nizolek is already making waves with her hand crafted, modern pieces. Each design is created from high quality materials such as semi-precious gemstones, brass, sterling silver and 14K gold and is perfect for dressing up both casual and elegant ensembles.

Yoga, once a quirky hippie habit, is now firmly in the trendy mainstream. You can express your personality while doing downward dog with all kinds of cool yoga pants, tops and bags. Only yoga mats seemed to be stuck in a boring constant, uniformly blue or purple -- until YogaMatic, that is.

YogaMatic makes custom yoga mats, allowing you to print them using the design of your choice -- either by uploading your own image for a unique, one-of-a-kind mat, or choosing from the gallery of beautiful photos and illustrations.

The company has a socially responsible stance, from eco-friendly production methods to donating a part of the proceeds to charity. They have an official alliance with Global Green USA, and also allow artists to identify the charity they would like to benefit from sales of their mats.

We're giving away a mat with one of the prettiest designs, the limited edition Daisy by Jennifer Cawley, one of YogaMatic's founders. It also comes with a cool black carrying bag, to make it easy to tote your mat from home to the yoga studio and back.

Interested? Follow these directions and maybe the lucky winner will be you! Namaste!

• To enter, leave a confirmed comment with your favorite yoga pose.
  
• The comment must be left before 5pm EST on Friday, July 25th.
  
• You may enter only once.
  
• One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
  
• The winner will receive one yoga mat and carrying bag (valued at $85.00)
  
• Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.

Click here for complete Official Rules.

Bar Refaeli might be as well known for being Leonardo DiCaprio's sweetie as for her modeling career, but she's looking to change that. The Israeli model is set to be the face (and the body) in Hurley's upcoming campaign.

This October, most fashion mags you pick up will have an image or two of Refaeli wearing Hurley's Spring 2009 line of bikinis, sheer tees, and denim shorts. The images are meant to "illustrate a theme of a young woman's journey and discovery." We think it's more likely they'll illustrate Refaeli's sexy curves.

For design aficionados, there's nothing quite like Dutch design. From furniture to fashion, graphic or poster art, advertising or industrial design, Limited/Unlimited: One Hundred Years of Dutch Design (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, through Oct 12) takes a look a Dutch design achievement, chronicled through the objects of daily life.

The exhibition shows similar objects side-by-side, from different design traditions, a mass produced example and a unique object: chair versus chair, iron versus iron. For those that can't make it to the Netherlands, museum curator Mienke Simon Thomas also authored Dutch Design. A Cultural History (010 Publishers, check out their design catalogue ).

As for "goed wonen." It translates to "good living." We'll take some of that, please.

Are you one of those people who is always customizing her bags? Do you doodle design ideas and imagine how cool it would be to see someone walk down the street wearing something you dreamed up? Are you just waiting for your chance to be the next big name in bags?

Well, if you're really that good, Coach might produce your design. Plus give you other prizes!

Coach is sponsoring a contest where you take one of their "iconic" totes, and create your own design. All you have to do is download the template and start designing. You may use the Coach logo, the signature "C" pattern, or the striped "legacy" pattern, or come up with something completely unique. It's up to you.

This announcement comes in just a few weeks after we began hearing rumors that The Gloved One, Michael Jackson is working on a fashion line. Now, little sister Janet Jackson wants in on the money making biz too! She's going to be doing her own clothing line.

Whit Honea is a slacker, a borderline degenerate, and a daydream believer. He's also our resident expert on casual chic. If it's comfortable, and not heinous, he's all over it. He's quite charming, really.

Hello, and welcome to Web 2.0, the t-shirt collection. We're not really sure what to say about these geek chic shirts, other than we like them, because the company that produces them isn't a t-shirt company; they're a design team that has a store. Or perhaps they're a store that has a design team. It's all so confusing.

Whit Honea is a slacker, a borderline degenerate, and a daydream believer. He's also our resident expert on casual chic. If it's comfortable, and not heinous, he's all over it. He's quite charming, really.

Ash Francomb is a self-described "sunny" boutique. What does this mean? Are solar panels involved? Not that we know of. However, we have a theory that the sunshine is in the shirts, figuratively. All of the prints are modern takes on vintage design and they promote "passion for adventure, the ocean, nature, and music into visual art meant to inspire their fans to 'live life like a road trip' and to travel the globe in search of endless summers and memories that will last a lifetime..."

Aside from being a blogger, what could be the coolest job in the world? Designing Barbie clothes, of course! Especially when you take into account that a Barbie clothing designer might make more than the average clothing designer in the real world.